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Mellifluous Botanicals
These are some of our favorite summer flowers picked fresh and isolated in their own miniature found glass jar. Each is a perfect specimen. Blooming in the July…
Red and Pink Currants
It’s been a banner year for currants. From just a few plants in the front yard garden we have enjoyed a bounty of these tiny tart fruits. Maybe…
Zinnias in the Kitchen Garden
We love easy to grow zinnias in the kitchen garden. It’s a perfect match- annual flowers planted with annual vegetables. Every year we plant a border of the…
Winter Aromatherapy: Lemons
Sure, if you live in California, Texas or Florida winter gloom is no big deal for you. You can run outside and pick fresh lemons from your own…
Faux Follies and Fake Ruins
I am creating a secret garden for a client that needs a wall. I want something that stops the eye as you stroll down the path- something to…
Winter Color in the Garden
Once upon a time the fashionable winter garden was a boring line of evergreen spheres. We were afraid of brown and tan and golden flax. We were afraid…